LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — After years of double-digit health insurance premium increases — which increasingly emptied his pockets as well as those of his employees, because each paid half — Walt Rowen finally got some relief a few years ago.
Insurance premiums offered through Pennie — Pennsylvania’s insurance exchange, created under the 2010 Affordable Care Act — had become affordable enough, thanks partly to enhanced pandemic-era tax credits, that employees could get their insurance there and cover roughly the whole cost with what had been just their half.
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